White people & Dreadlocks

[loyola llothta]

Vikings had all sorts of hairstyles, and cared about hygiene. They never wore horned helmets either.


Sadhu Indians is where Rastas got the dreads from.

now can you back that up

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I don't know why people assume dreads are exclusive to black people

The average dreadhead has no clue what the original purpose of dreads are...

Most people agree dreads originated somewhere in Africa. The Egyptians were the earliest people recorded to have that time of style.

IIRC(I could be wrong) Rastas dreads have no connection to Sadhu Indians...

 

[Milk N Cookies]

I've seen dogs with better dreads....

 

[GunRanger]

now can you back that up

It's always what I learned from my family. British brought over Indians, and the dreads and weed smoking mixed in.


There's also a documentary

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Vikings had all sorts of hairstyles, and cared about hygiene. They never wore horned helmets either.


Sadhu Indians is where Rastas got the dreads from.

Much respect to that civilization but you know there are earlier sources in Africa KMT, Namibia, Eithopia etc.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I don't know why people assume dreads are exclusive to black people

The average dreadhead has no clue what the original purpose of dreads are...

I never said dreads were exclusive to us but we the originators.

 

[GunRanger]

Much respect to that civilization but you know there are earlier sources in Africa KMT, Namibia, Eithopia etc.

Sure, but we're talking Rastas.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Sure, but we're talking Rastas.

Im not too sure about rastas but I do know they brought it across the Atlantic.

 

[KOohbt]

Cacs in this thread already trying to claim locs ain't ours. Even though are hair grows like that naturally so however old the black man is is how old locs are. There isn't a non black person on earth with locs anywhere near as nice as mine.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Rastafarian dreadlocks originated in Africa with the Masai tribes of Kenya! Rastafarians believe that, just like Samson the Nazarite, a man’s strength rests in the length of the hair.
…and, he who chooses to cut it gives away that strength. This idea stems from the Nazarite vow written in the book of Leviticus 21:5 – “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”

In the 1930’s, about 100 years after the emancipation of slavery, Jamaican rastafarians adopted dreads as one their foundational principles.

http://www.jamaican-traditions.com/rastafarian-dreadlocks.html

It has been suggested (e.g., Campbell 1985) that the first Rasta locks were copied from Kenya in
1953, when images of the independence struggle of the feared mau mau insurgents, who grew their
"dreaded locks" while hiding in the mountains, appeared in newsreels and other publications that
reached Jamaica. However, a more recent study by Barry Chevannes[47] has traced the first hairlocked
Rastas to a subgroup first appearing in 1949, known as Youth Black Faith.

http://www.littlezion.be/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/History-Of-The-Rastafari-Movement.pdf

Where is this idea of Rastas dreads having connection to India?? I always read the connection came from Africa....

 

[Matt504]

I don't know why people assume dreads are exclusive to black people

The average dreadhead has no clue what the original purpose of dreads are...

What do you racially identify as?

 

[Regine Hunter]

:yesthis:

they don't wash them dreads breh.
you want scalp build up on you, go ahead

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Mau Mau of Kenya who most likely influenced the early Rastas.

Just saying extremely long dreads are not taboo to Africa.

 

[Regine Hunter]

that shyt used to look clean as fukk back in the day though

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Mau Mau of Kenya who most likely influenced the early Rastas.

Just saying extremely long dreads are not taboo to Africa.